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...character for a team that has relied heavily on its power play for much of the season. The last time the Crimson notched three 5-on-5 scores was on Jan. 6, in a 3-2 victory over Union.“As we come down the stretch, the number of penalties called around the league has been dropping rapidly,” Donato said. “So it’s important that we improve our 5-on-5 play.”Trailing 2-1 at the first intermission, Harvard took control of the game...
...Penn to overtime the night before. The back-end game this time was much more competitive.“It’s hard to take something from a loss, but the Palestra is a tough place to play and I think we handled it well, except for that stretch in the second half when we let it get away,” Goffredo said. “We showed poise both nights, so I think definitely, with four of our last six on the road, that is something we can be happy about.”The Crimson hits...
That's a pretty good description of Ten Days in the Hills (Knopf; 445 pages), a leisurely stretch of talking and rutting that takes its structure from The Decameron and a good part of its spirit from The Kama Sutra. Let's start with The Decameron. In Boccaccio's 14th century compendium of tales, 10 people depart Florence, where the Black Death is raging, for two weeks of food, drink and storytelling in the Tuscan countryside. In Smiley's update, the Iraq war stands in for the plague. Los Angeles, the silkier parts, plays Tuscany. As the war begins...
...some bandages?'' ''No.'' Even with no help, I washed my hands and took care of my injuries, and eventually they began to heal. It took me many months of intense effort to be able to raise my arms above my head; it was a full year before I could stretch them straight above me. The deeper wounds where the metal of the handcuffs cut through my flesh almost to the bone left scars that remain with me to this...
...invariably become the new ruling class. Even this very junior official in the party hierarchy could make arbitrary decisions about my life and lecture me and accuse me of crimes simply because he was an official and I was just an ordinary citizen. We were not equals by any stretch of the imagination...